Garth Brooks Restaurant, Friends in Low Places, Has Fans in High Spirits

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood's new Nashville restaurant, Friends in Low Places, has a new Prime Video docuseries.

Mar. Eight 2024, Published 6:03 p.m. ET

Of all the issues country singers do in their spare time, opening restaurants is surprisingly commonplace. Celebrities in all fields regularly develop into restaurateurs, from Donnie and Mark Wahlberg’s Wahlburgers to Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. Now, country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are becoming a member of their friends with their new Nashville restaurant, Friends in Low Places, named after Garth’s in style underdog anthem.

The restaurant’s grand opening has generated a ton of hype as enthusiasts from all over the place the world flock to welcome the Honky Tonk & Bar to the “neon community.” It joins the ranks of a number of eating places and bars owned by way of nation artists, such as Dolly Parton’s Stampede Dinner Attraction in Tennesee, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Oklahoma, Luke Bryan’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink in Nashville, and extra.

Garth Brooks opened his new restaurant, Friends in Low Places, with Trisha Yearwood.

Despite its namesake, Friends in Low Places may be very much a collaboration. It’s owned equally through Garth and Trisha, who labored with Max and Benjamin Goldberg’s Strategic Hospitality, which operates a number of of Nashville’s most popular restaurants, including Locust, Bastion, and The Patterson House. “I agree with them,” Trisha instructed Axios, “They're so well-respected in this the town. Because they do it right.”

While Trisha is known first as a nation singer, she’s additionally a chef with a Daytime Emmy-winning Food Network cooking program, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. In reality, her set for the show used to be the foundation for the new restaurant’s third floor, which additionally comprises a members-only Sevens Club and a non-public seating space.

“I believe like Frank Sinatra could walk up to that bar and order a Jack and Smoke [a specialty drink presented in the venue] and really feel very relaxed,” Trisha informed Billboard of the Sevens Club. “It feels proper. There’s these two flooring of honky-tonks and when you step off that elevator on that flooring, it’s such as you’re in a place of dwelling.

“There’s crown molding, it’s wealthy, luxe furniture and you go into that Sevens Club and it’s like, ‘Wow, are we on Lower Broadway?’ And even in the kitchen, there are picket ceilings, and that checkerboard ground. I fought for that checkerboard ground. Garth used to be like, ‘That seems like a lot,’ and I used to be like, ‘No, it’s a statement.’ And it’s stunning.”

The advent of the new Garth Brooks restaurant has been documented in Amazon Prime’s ‘Friends in Low Places.’

It’s a huge deal that Garth is opening a restaurant as one of the most biggest names in country tune. So, he and Trisha partnered with Amazon Prime to document the hole of their new spot. Garth and Trisha had been deeply concerned with the building, design, and thought of the restaurant. In fact, Trisha even taught the staff find out how to make her scrumptious apple pie recipe.

"It's a lot of money in, and a lot of hours in," Garth advised journalists of the process of opening the spot. However, Garth and Trisha didn’t have fun opening day with their enthusiasts. They informed various outlets that the two years of planning, development, and promoting left them exhausted.

Luckily, we’ll get to look all of it in the Prime Video series. “My favourite moments [in the documentary] is when you see the nature of these other people underneath hearth –you’re against timelines, you’re up towards budgets.”

Despite the strain, Garth and Trisha nonetheless purpose to create a neighborhood. "Build a place where people love one another. That’s what we wanna do here. Be the ripple," Garth stated to Axios. “If this position is what I want it to be, this position shall be love.”

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